Archaeology in the Big Bend of the Green River, KY

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Middens to Museums: Papers in Honor of Julie K. Stein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Julie Stein joined the Shell Mound Archaeological Project (SMAP) in western Kentucky in 1977 when Patty Jo Watson and William Marquardt, leaders of the project initiated in 1971, recognized the need to add geoarchaeology to the already interdisciplinary project. I started as a graduate student at Washington University–St. Louis in Fall 1971; and, while not a core member of the research team, I was there, on the ground and in the dirt, from the beginning. Julie and I both took full-time jobs in 1980, in Washington state and North Carolina respectively, and stayed put for the rest of our careers. We each experienced archaeology both in an academic department and in museums, although I was a graduate student working at the National Museum in Copenhagen, while Julie has directed the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture with great success since 2005. SMAP was the place we became friends, colleagues, and, I think it is fair to say, professionals, mentored especially by Pat Watson. In this presentation, Pat and I would like to share some of the experiences from that project and what was learned from working with Julie.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• From Middens to Museums: Papers in Honor of Julie K. Stein

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Abstract Id(s): 23015